I was able to do it this way .. no as "slick" as a 1-line awk pilnet posted .. but still works
might be easier to read, as well? for us rookies, anyway
Hi,
I have a table in Db2 with data say
id_1 phase1
id_1 phase2
id_1 phase3
id_2 phase1
id_2 phase2
I need to concatenate the values like
id_1 phase1,phase2,phase3
id_2 phase1,phase2
I tried recursive query but in vain as the length of string to be concatenated in quite long. ... (17 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file which is having 3 columns as (string string integer)
a b 1
x y 2
p k 5
y y 4
.....
.....
Question:
I want get the unique value of column 2 in a sorted way(on column 2) and the sum of the 3rd column of the corresponding rows. e.g the above file should return the... (6 Replies)
Hello everybody,
I'm trying to count the number of consecutive lines in a text file which have two distinctive column field values. These lines may appear in several line blocks within the file, but I only want a single block to be counted.
This was my first approach to tackle the problem (I'm... (6 Replies)
I have a file containing data like so:
2012-01-02 GREEN 4
2012-01-02 GREEN 6
2012-01-02 GREEN 7
2012-01-02 BLUE 4
2012-01-02 BLUE 3
2012-01-02 GREEN 4
2012-01-02 RED 4
2012-01-02 RED 8
2012-01-02 GREEN 4
2012-01-02 YELLOW 5
2012-01-02 YELLOW 2
I can't always predict what the... (4 Replies)
I would like to compare the values of 2nd column of consecutive lines of same file in such a way so that if the difference between first value and second value is more than 100 it should print complete line else ignore line.
Input File
==========
PDB 2500
RTDB 123
RTDB-EAGLE 122
VSCCP 2565... (4 Replies)
Hi,
My input files is like this
axis1 0 1 10
axis2 0 1 5
axis1 1 2 -4
axis2 2 3 -3
axis1 3 4 5
axis2 3 4 -1
axis1 4 5 -6
axis2 4 5 1
Now, these are my following tasks
1. Print a first column for every two rows that has the same value followed by a string.
2. Match on the... (3 Replies)
Hi would like to ask you guys any advise regarding my problem
I have this kind of data
file.txt
111111111,20
111111111,50
222222222,70
333333333,40
444444444,10
444444444,20
I need to get this
file1.txt
111111111,70
222222222,70
333333333,40
444444444,30
using this code I can... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
Does anyone have any suggestions/examples of how i could show only lines where the first field is not duplicated. If the first field is listed more than once it shouldnt be shown even if the other columns make it unique.
Example file :
876,RIBDA,EC2
876,RIBDH,EX7
877,RIBDF,E28... (4 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have csv file with 30, 40 columns
Pasting just 2 column for problem description.
Need to print error if below combination is not present in file
check for column-1 (DocumentNumber) and filter columns where value in DocumentNumber field is same.
For all such rows, the field... (7 Replies)
What is an efficient way of counting the number of unique values in a 400 column by 1000 row array and outputting the counts per column, assuming the unique values in the array are:
A, B, C, D
In other words the output should look like: Value COL1 COL2 COL3
A 50 51 52... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: Geneanalyst
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paste
paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)Name
paste - merge file data
Syntax
paste file1 file2...
paste -dlist file1 file2...
paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2...
Description
In the first two forms, concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc. It treats each file as a column or
columns of a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging).
In the last form, the command combines subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging).
In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab character, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to the
standard output, so it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if - is used in place of a file name.
Options
- Used in place of any file name, to read a line from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
-dlist Replaces characters of all but last file with nontabs characters (default tab). One or more characters immediately following -d
replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is used circularly, i. e. when exhausted, it is reused. In
parallel merging (i. e. no -s option), the lines from the last file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the
list. The list may contain the special escape sequences:
(new-line), (tab), \ (backslash), and (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters have special meaning to the shell (for example, to get one backslash, use
-d"\\" ).
Without this option, the new-line characters of each but the last file (or last line in case of the -s option) are replaced by a
tab character. This option allows replacing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
-s Merges subsequent lines rather than one from each input file. Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with -d
option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of the file is forced to be a new-line.
Examples
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"
" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
Diagnostics
line too long
Output lines are restricted to 511 characters.
too many files
Except for -s option, no more than 12 input files may be specified.
See Alsocut(1), grep(1), pr(1)paste(1)